Mission Statement:

Our Aims:

To encourage our Arab youth to write
To offer members a professional network
To urge members to publish their work in mainstream publications
To support sister and brother writers in the Arab world
To welcome established writers as well as writers beginning their career
To prepare a guide to Arab-American writers

We are open to fiction and non-fiction writers, essayists, poets, journalists, photojournalists, artists who work with words, and academics of Arab heritage from the Arab lands-- Magreb to Mashreq. Arab heritage is an essential component of our identity, although not an essential subject matter of our work.

This is a professional organization largely concerned with English medium literary works and professionals working in English. We therefore are concerned with developing strong and professional ties with American English language institutions, whether journals, English departments, publishers, editors, or writers.

We seek to represent a progressive voice in the American community, and a voice for justice in the US and abroad. We seek to promote the building of coalitions, and collaborate with others around issues of social justice.

Featured Writers

FICTION WRITER: Susan Muaddi Darraj
Susan Muaddi Darraj is associate professor of English at Harford Community College in Bel Air, Maryland ...

POET: Dima Hilal
Dima Hilal is a poet and writer, born in Beirut and raised in California, where she studied at the University of California ...

Original Arab American writing:

Voices from the South
Four Lebanese Women
...

Summer Rain
Andrea Assaf
I wash my body in Beirut as missiles rain...

Salti Dispatches from Beirut
Rasha Salti reports on the situation in Lebanon for RAWI

Laila Halaby's letter to an Israeli soldier
Normally in letters I start out by wishing the person to whom I am writing good health and spirits.

Mohja Kahf's letter to a friend entitled "Israel is Godzilla"
From where I sit: Israel has been Godzilla backed by super-Godzilla...

To see Kahf's essay 'The Israelyville Horror?' please go to the homepage of www.MuslimWakeUp.com

Security Apartheid
Ginan Rauf
Amidst all the horror visiting Lebanon recently...

My Family in Lebanon
Hayan Charara -
I have stopped counting the dead. A single death is more than this world can afford...

Elmaz Abinader poems - Two for Hayan
(nothing new)
(My Father's House is a Terrorist Target)

Word from Dahiyeh, Lebanon
by editor of ArteNews Maymanah Farhat (electronic intafada)

Featured Artist:

war ration(allies)

al-iqaa

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